Chrysalis

As always, the list is excessively long. Like, does anyone want half of these options? Actually, most of them seem pretty good… but far too niche! The Altar has a greater effect empowering fire abilities. The Altar has a greater effect empowering ice abilities. The Altar has a greater effect empowering physical abilities….

On and on it goes.

I quickly identify the basic upgrades before I start flicking about to see if I can find something that might take my fancy. I mean, it’s hard to go wrong with improving the capacity of the Altar, and improving its efficiency converting Will into… whatever it converts it into.

Both upgrades give the Altar a lot more bang for the buck, so to speak. The capacity upgrade is almost mandatory, since I already have several abilities that drain the entire stock dry when I empower them. In fact, considering the sheer amount of energy the Vestibule funnels into me, I may not even need the efficiency upgrade. I could take capacity at +5 and +10, reinforce it at +15 and then see how I feel after that.

It may even prove necessary to repeat the process again from +20 to +30. More power stocked up will allow me to go ham with my most powerful spells and abilities. Against the three super demons, that may prove crucial. If I can’t throw out empowered wells and Void Chomps willy-nilly, then I’ll struggle to go toe to toe with them.

I continue to trawl through the many, many listings in case I find something I might consider interesting, and I do.

[Starborn Altar: Increases the effect when empowering gravity based abilities.]

DAMMIT.

That’s so tempting! That’s super tempting!

could be super good! The Gravity Bomb, the Gravity Well, the Gravity Domain, perhaps even the Void Chomp, would all get extra

leaning so heavily into gravity based power now that I have it, further investment pays me

Snap out of it, Anthony! You must select capacity

two choices in and commit to reinforcing them at fifteen.

likely no chance I get to reforge the Altar, so these mutations are going to stick. Think about it. Think

in! +20, +25 and then reinforce,

Alright then, onto the Nave. I’m still not entirely clear on the function of

at this point, but the Vestibule, Nave and Altar are all parts of a church or cathedral. The Vestibule is where

Nave is the biggest bit, it’s where people sit.

show up for, I suppose. Its purpose is to give shape to the Will that is flowing through. I chose to dedicate the Altar to empowering myself,

where does that fit

comes in through the Vestibule, flows through the Nave, then is given purpose by the Altar. My previous mutations for the Nave were simple and generic, effectively purifying and concentrating the Will that passed through it. Without an Altar for that energy to flow to, it wasn’t easy to see the difference that made. All that happened was that the things that Will already did for me, keeping me fresh, refilling my stamina, acid

But now, I wonder.

misunderstood its purpose all along. By constructing it, I made a place for the Will of the Colony… to

coming, even if I conceal my core. There are times I know things I shouldn’t, or they know things they shouldn’t, as if we’d sat

we did.

what’s going on, but I never did for the Nave…. Now I’m a little scared to. Alright, let’s